Arbor Zen is a hardwood flooring company based in Black Mountain, North Carolina. Grayson Deal, the company's president, met and became friends with Jennifer Leigh Smith in September of 2016. Since then, the company has been an active ACCT Tree Ambassador, donating monthly to the program. This wonderful business collaboration helps the company meet their goal of planting 25 trees for every floor installed. Grayson developed this goal, mindful of offsetting CO2 emissions, as well as maintaining environmentally responsible production & being socially engaged by giving back with the #25TreePromise. All of this to help ensure a better future for our planet! As an Ambassador of Community Carbon Trees, Arbor Zen is excited to be able to contribute from their home in Black Mountain, North Carolina. The active planting of trees within 10° of the equator, where hibernation is not necessary, ensures that the company's donation is going as far as absolutely possible, without creating carbon by traveling to the tropics every month! The largest amount of carbon sequestration achievable, and a beautiful business partnership.  Thank you Community Carbon Trees for allowing us to contribute to your cause.  Read more @ www.ArborZen.com

Bonne Terre Vacation Rentals

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Come stay with us way down in Louisiana. A beautiful experience awaits you to 

Discover, Create, Be at Bonne Terre!

With amazing local cuisine nearby, all kinds of music for every taste, dancing and fun in cajun country, your visit to Bonne Terre Vacation Rentals will be unforgettable. And if relaxing is more your speed, we have uniquely outiftted each space with everything you need to rest, create and enjoy. From amazing record collections to fantastically appointed kitchens ready for cooking with your own ingredients, ( we supply some basics), we look forward to showing you some special southern hospitality and charm. 

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Greg Gordon (@crsurf) helps people plan surf trips to Costa Rica. He has been coming to Costa Rica for over 20 years, and fell in love with the powerful presence of nature around the beach town of Dominical. He grew up in Virginia Beach, watching as vast swaths of forest were chopped down to make room for condos and wider highways. While teaching in Florida he witnessed mangroves being cut to make for better waterfront views. And in Costa Rica he has seen how unregulated development has caused erosion in the mountains and along the coasts. 

When he first moved to Costa Rica in 1998, he started a group called the Basura Busters that did monthly beach cleanups. He also volunteered with ASANA, which helps create biological corridors in the southern part of the country. When he was back in the U.S., he was an active volunteer with the Surfrider Foundation plus organized recycling programs in public schools. There he learned the importance of trees to help filter out pollutants, act as a buffer for hurricanes, and provide habitat for a variety of fauna.

Now he uses his travel company as a platform to teach others the importance of protecting the environment. “Any chance to sponsor a tree and have it cared for is a step to reverse the damage that humans have done to our planet,” explains the owner of CR Surf Travel Company. “For every vacation package we sell, we will sponsor a tree for each traveler. This will help offset their carbon footprint and ensure a sustainable future for Costa Rica as a world class surf destination.”  ~~~ CR Surf Travel Company - Costa Rica Surf & Travel Experts
A Dugans Travel Consultant
Toll free - 877-787-3007 (SURF-007)
Member - 1% for the Planet & the Surfrider Foundation

@DanyasaArts @SofiahThom www.danyasa.com

Sofiah Thom is an active ACCT Tree Ambassador through her eco-yoga retreats in Dominical Costa Rica where her students participate in SEVA service activities with hands on participation in the ACCT tree nursery in Platanillo. Additionally, every student who participates in her retreats sponsors a Community Carbon Tree to offset their CO2 with long term fair paid community reforestation. Sofiah shares her beliefs in giving back to Source and embodying YES in every aspect of life. Her beautiful and powerful movement and dance are a testament to the celebration of life and the embodiment of the feminine GAIA with honor for the Trees which breathe every breath of life here with each of us. By Sofiah, "Every day we? plug back into Source through our breath, our practice, the raw nature we dance in. WE are So blessed to hold sanctuary for such deep empowering transformation."

David Porchron (DCP) is a professional snowboarder and North Face Athlete.

He works with YES and lives with Megan Pischke in Squamish, BC. DCP became one of our first Tree Ambassadors with his wife Megan Pischke when ACCT was first starting out. David first connected ACCT with Spy Optics for a special pair of his DCP snowboard goggles with a percentage given to plant rainforest trees for future generations. Then DCP, keeping balance with Nature, helped to connect ACCT with both PROTECT OUR WINTERS a group that educated and works to fight climate change. He created a TREE SHIRT featured by PROTECT our WINTERS each year as a way to encourage more tree sponsors. DCP was also instrumental with Megan to introduce ACCT community reforestation to Jeremy Jones and Jones SNowboards who has become a strong corporate sponsor and voice for ACCT as well. DAVID understands that one tree at a time, one connection at a time is the sure way to get the word out. DAVID has championed sponsoring over 400 trees already with ACCT. His film BALANCE is an example of producing a carbon conscious film with offsets for travel. Thank you DAVID for being so awesome. ACCT appreciates your example as a Carbon Neutral athlete.

Envision Festival encourages people to offset their carbon dioxide emitted from traveling to the event in Costa Rica Since it's inception, Envision has sponsored diverse native trees produced, planted and maintained with regular, active paid labor on farms owned by Costa Ricans. So far, Envisionaries have sponsored 558 native rainforest trees guaranteed to thrive by hardworking fair paid communities on their own previously deforested pasturelands. These trees will sequester or offset more than 558 tons of CO2 and form new biodiverse forests full of sustainable food, medicine, products, oxygen, water and fertile soil. ACCT empowers local men and women to stop deforestation by creating dignified jobs centered on growing sustainable reforestation business. Jennifer Smith shares all the reasons to love planting Equator trees as a proven solution to mitigate climate change and poverty for future generations with everyone at Envision. Go find her special Tree ZENTER at Envision and ask about her inspirational story to inspire your own sustainable purpose in life. Every Tree Makes a Difference!

John Kohler is the founder of Growing Your Greens.com. John hosts the most watched gardening show on youtube. It's a fun and enlightening show on how to grow food at your home and beyond. John provides you with tips and tricks as well as shares his experiences growing food at his urban homestead. John is dedicated to helping you sustainably grow the highest quality fruits, vegetables, herbs, nuts and other edible foods in your front yard and beyond.

Tree Jenny and John met at the Fruit the World Convergence in Costa Rica in September 2016. John immediately resonated with the model of Community Carbon Trees biodiverse reforestation to fight climate change while empowering local men and women with fair pair to plant trees on their own farms. JOHN is an ACCT Tree Ambassador because he believes that everyone can be a force for being the change for our planet. By sponsoring a single tree, everyday people support social and environmental education and responsibility while contributing healthy climate for the whole planet. After all, repairing the hydrological cycle by planting trees on the Equator means better rainfall cycles for EVERYONE no matter where you live. And more balanced rainfall means that you eat, drink and breathe well while "GROWING YOUR GREENS"

Jose Conde is a a musician, singer, and writer based in Brooklyn, New York. He is a sonic artist and producer at PIPIKI Records LLC. His work OLA FRESCA among others, are widely known and appreciated. He has been coined by the NY Post as “One of New York’s most intriguing voices in Afro Carribean music.”

Jose also happens to have a farm in Costa Rica Puriscal mountain where he has has participated in reforestation. Jose believes that planting trees near the Equator is one of the best solutions we have available to balance climate change. So, Jose has organized a Tropical Tree Benefit in Brooklyn New York for November 2, 2017 to celebrate his 50th birthday. He has gathered an eclectic cast of Brooklyn musicians for a show and big to raise money for the planting of trees and raise awareness of the direct impact that planting trees makes on Global climate issues and so many other positive spinoff aspects.  Jose says, “I think it is the best thing I can do on my 50th birthday on this planet.”

Mother, High Tech Professional, Environmental Activist, and Mindfulness Teacher

Kirsten Connelly has been working on technology transformation projects working in sales, customer success and consulting for 25 years. CCT is a model rooted in triple bottom line and agroecology which is why she passionately supports CCT’s work and facilitates spreading the model globally. 

Kirsten has a Green MBA and works to bridge the world of high tech with regenerative systems like CCT that can scale to support the people and planet by building resilience to survive and thrive through the inevitable climate change on earth. She founded mindfulteens.org and is dedicated to educating young people to grow their inner strength to more clearly see and meet the climate change challenges they will contribute to solving.  

Stats Home Name: Town: Leilani Pavones, McGonagle 

Costa Rica Date of Birth: 11-14-1999 Age: 19 Education: Online College Student, Majoring in Communication Studies Sponsors: Rip Curl, Coral Bahia, Lost Surfboards, FCS Contact: leilasurf123@gmail.com 

About Me 

Hello, 

My name is Leilani McGonagle, yes like in Harry Potter! I was born and raised in the small town of Pavones, Costa Rica, where I have lived the 19 years of my life. Here I had the most beautiful upbringing and harvested my love for surfing. Around the age of 8, I began to compete, and it just happened to be exactly what the doctor ordered for a little surf rat. Little me developed a crazy dream of being a professional surfer; and well let’s just say I have religiously clung to it ever since. 

Pretty much from then on my life has revolved around surfing. I started competing nationally and now branched out to more international events. I have been blessed with the opportunity to surf, compete, and travel through the world. 2018 was my first full year of competition on the WQS (World Qualifying Series), which I ended up ranked 18th on. I am also a Olympic hopeful for Costa Rica.

In 2019, I will working toward qualification to WCT (World Championship Tour) and also the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. On the side, I’m just another college student, with an obsession for dogs and a clean planet! 

The Socials 

Instagram: @leilanimcgonagle 

https://www.instagram.com/leilanimcgonagle/?hl=en 

Facebook Page: Leilani McGonagle https://www.facebook.com/Leilani-Mcgonagle-436214986480708/ 

Twitter: @leilanimcgonagl https://twitter.com/leilanimcgonagl?lang=en 

Results:

*Costa Rica National Champion 5x (Various Divisions) 

*Central American Champion 3x 

*ISA World Jr. Silver Medalist U16 & Copper Medalist U18 2014 *Champion of Grom Search International Final 2015 

*ISA Open Silver Medalist 2015 

*ISA World Jr. Silver Medalist 2016 

*WSL North America Regional Junior Champion 2016 

*2nd Place WQS 1,500 Pichilemu Women’s Pro 2016 & 2018 

*ISA Open Bronze Medalist 2017 *Champion of WQS 1,500 Pichilemu Women Pro 2017 

*ISA World Jr. Silver Medalist 2017 

*Champion of WQS 3,000 Barbados Surf Pro 2018 

*Qualified for PASA Games 2019 

*18th World Qualifying Series 2018

Audrey Bennett and JP Spaventa are co-founders of Lokahi Ocean Science. Their organization leads scientific sailing expeditions that aim to rethink the exploitative history of ocean exploration. They are currently planning a carbon-neutral sailing voyage throughout the Eastern and Central Pacific that collaborates with local researchers and organizations to work on projects related to marine conservation. They are both passionate about protecting our planet and empowering local communities to act as environmental stewards, and are excited to partner with ACCT to offset their carbon and support local reforestation efforts.  Website: https://lokahioceanscience.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lokahioceanscience/?hl=en 

Megan has been snowboarding for over 17 years and practicing yoga nearly the same.

She truly feels that the mountains, the surf and yoga have been like old friends through the ups and downs of life and that they keep her in check on a daily basis. From X Games appearances to Warren Miller Film segments and first descents in Greenland, Megan continues to feel blessed for her lengthy snowboard career, involvement in the action sports industry and amazing travels. Transitioning from pro-athlete into motherhood, Megan continues to work with her longtime sponsor The North Face in product research, design and development in kids' and adult outerwear.

For more than 16 years, Megan has dedicated herself to Boarding for Breast Cancer (B4BC), a non-profit and a cause that means more than just "supporting" to her. Wanting to become more actively involved, Megan partnered with B4BC as a Wellness Ambassador to provide breast cancer survivors with scholarships to her ReTreat Yourself women's wellness experiences rooted in snowboarding, surfing, and yoga with a complementary focus on meditation, nutrition and other tools for prevention. To date, 35 survivors have attended these Mountain and Ocean ReTreats.

Megan Pischke Porchron is one of our very first Tree Ambassadors! She inspired this movement to help empower other people to use their voices out in the world on behalf of planting diverse rainforest trees with our reforestation community in Costa Rica. Megan wants to leave a healthy planet to her children. Megan is a NORTH FACE ATHLETE and uses her pro snowboarding background to lead her friends to our holistic approach to restoring the rainforest in order to repair and balance the water cycle. Megan understands how trees planted on the Equator recycle more water than trees planted anywhere else.

Megan is a force of Nature herself. Ironically, in the Fall of 2012, Megan was diagnosed with breast cancer and describes this new part of her journey as "a gift." Beyond her amazing, positive and confident outlook, Megs is blessed that she is now cancer free and reminds us all of the most important medicine to her, is just to be her'to raise her kids with love and hope, to snowboard and laugh with her friends, to surf, to do yoga on the top of the Chief, and watch sunsets with her husband. Living life as grateful and appreciative as she always has is just as much a part of her healing. see her award winning documentary Chasing Sunshine documenting her integrative approach to healing cancer. ACCT is grateful beyond measure that she has taken on rainforest tree planting work and made it her own. Thanks for constantly connecting ACCT and our community reforestation work to the world Megan! You are a shining star!~

Natalie Ford has been living in rural Cherryville, British Columbia for the last six years. In that time, she has watched the forests all around her  be harvested (logged) by private and government supported operations an unsustainable way. With incredible speed, steep mountainsides are clear cut and lush habitats are lost.  A lover of all plants and animals, Natalie has strived to create a sustainable lifestyle and walk gently upon the earth. Yet with the global environmental crisis of habitat loss and threats of climate change, she realizes that this is not enough! By promoting ACCT in her region, Natalie hopes to provide her community with a positive environmental action that they can take right now to restore lost habitat and offset increasing C02 levels. Coupled with raising awareness of environmental issues in British Columbia, she hopes to take action to protect our shrinking wilderness and our global home. 

Nicole is a tree-hugger from way back who loves to connect with plants and teaching others how to do this. As an international yoga teacher; philanthropist; actress and activist who is fluent in 5 languages, she has had the privilege to spend time in incredible natural habitats all over the world, particularly in her birth-land of Australia. Wherever she is however, including her current urban home of London, she will find time just about everyday to hug a tree, ground and connect deeply to mother earth. Nicole believes that it is the disconnection from nature that has allowed such destruction and abuse of the planet and that experiential connection is key to shifting the collective to organically take better care of our precious earth. This journey can begin within to one’s own true nature through Yogic practices such as Kundalini Yoga and meditation. Nicole is proud and excited to be an ambassador for such a wonderful organisation which shares her values and goal to preserve, protect, respect and regenerate ourselves, this precious green and blue planet and its beings - including her greatest loves: TREES!!!

Zoe Wright, Broker at the Uvita Office of Properties in Costa Rica

When I visited Uvita at the beginning of 2009, I immediately knew I wanted to call this amazing place home.I wanted to live close to some of the grandest forms of nature, the rainforest and the ocean.I longed for my future children to develop a deep appreciation, wonderment and respect and for nature.What better place for this to happen than in Costa Rica and in an area with nearly 20 km of protected coastline and seemingly endless acres of rainforest?

After moving to Uvita in 2010 from Canada, my son was born here in 2012 and I began working with Properties in Costa Rica that same year, making this unique area of the globe my official home.Throughout the years, it has become ever more clear to me how important it is for us to play our role in protecting the environment and cherishing that which the earth provides us.We all come to a place like the Costa Ballena because something draws us, be it the simple life, the dramatic landscape, the wonders of nature, whatever it may be, we connect to it.When we connect to something or someone, it is usually a reciprocal experience, our needs are met and we yield something in return; the earth gives us more than we could ever return to it, free of charge, for our true enjoyment.This area has enriched my life more than I could have ever imagined, and working with Jennifer and Carbon Community Trees is one of the very few things I feel I can do to show my gratitude to mother nature.

I am excited to know that my clients can also play their role in leaving a positive impact on the area.People purchase property here to create a life made of the “Pura Vida”, well the natural surroundings are one of the biggest parts of this lifestyle.In a world where many are focused solely on what they can get out of our natural resources, I desire for my clients to play a responsible role in giving back to the environment. Whether it is carbon offset when traveling to and from Costa Rica, or working with CCT to develop their property in a responsible manner, I am excited to facilitate a program which will contribute to the community and the environment.

Contact Zoe at:

The Dome Plaza, Uvita, second floor, office #19

zoe@propertiesincostarica.com

011-506-8725-6815

sustainablepropertycostarica.com

propertiesincostarica.com

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The Point After SeanConley.net

The Point After SeanConley.netI am passionate about conservation and fighting climate change. For the past several months I have been researching multiple organizations for a match. My hope was to find at least one that I share a connection with and then do all I can to help support that organization.

A number of factors drew me to Community Carbon Trees. 

• Positivity. Although I am a supporter of fighting climate change through political means, I believe my energy will be better served partnering with CCT and help with reforestation. Your organization is a bright light. 

Impact/Importance. I believe all climate change organizations have their special place. Even if we are able to realize net-zero carbon dioxide emissions in the energy sector in the future, we still need to protect our rain forests. I feel like reforestation/conservation gets lost sometimes in climate change discussions. 

• Trees. I’ve always been a lover of trees and enjoy planting them and watching the miracle grow. Every time we have moved to a new house, one of the first things I do, is plant as many new trees as possible around our house. 

• I want to support local communities and indigenous communities to bring their forests back and or/protected.

Connection. Because I live part-time in Costa Rica, I hope to visit and help on site when possible. This could also help spread the word as I could take photos, blog about it, talk about it on my podcast, etc. 

We at the Flying Monkey are so happy to be involved with Community Carbon Trees. We feel so fortunate to be an ambassador with such a wonderful cause in the country we love.

A little bit about us: The Flying Monkey is a beautiful 2 bedroom villa located in Canto del Mar, Dominicalito, Costa Rica, complete with its own infinity pool and stunning panoramic ocean/jungle views from all areas of the villa. The Flying Monkey is so fortunate to have an undisturbed wildlife corridor right in our backyard. Monkeys, sloths, iguanas, toucans and other birds love it here. Community Carbon Trees is rebuilding the rainforest, something that we, and the wildlife corridor, appreciate.

Check us out on VRBO (https://www.vrbo.com/451454)

Your newest tree Ambassadors: The Cadette Girl Scouts (6th - 8th Graders) at The Great Scoutdoors Lincoln Nature 2019 are super excited to become Tree Ambassadors for Tree Jenny and Community Carbon Trees! These 42 girls spent a camping weekend earning the Trees badge!  They cooked a tree dish over a campfire (fruit pies), took a night hike to explore animals who need trees as homes, captured a tree on canvas, and then Tree Jenny educated us on deforestation and what we can do to help trees thrive!   We are commited to sending at least 50 trees to Jenny and Community Carbon Trees in the next year so that she can continue her work and get ever closer to her goal.  
Thank you for the inspiration and teaching us that the solution to the problem is truly in the palm of our hands.   Much love to our Girl Scout Sister! Attachments area

Socio-Biologist, Permaculture Designer, and Regenerative Farmer

Dedicating the past 13+ years of my life to personal and planetary wellness has rewarded me with deep insights into the subtle relations between People, Culture, and Nature.  

Experiences Include:

o   13+ years living in tropical communities (Intentional, Indigenous, and/or Subsistence Farming). 

o   7 years Managing/Designing Organic Farms & Volunteer Programs from Guatemala to Bolivia 

o   3 years Peace Corps Panama Agro-forestry Volunteer and Assistant Trainer

o   University Thesis on Socio-Biology, Positive Psychology, and Culture of Wellness

I've also served as social worker with immigrant families, tutor and mentor to "at-risk" youth and peace mediator.  I have a passion for the wild and weedy “Thrival” plants, and enhancing the harvest with added energetic and nutritional value (fermenting, sprouting, cooking, etc...). .  

REGENESIS 2020 - EARTHHEART- ACCT We are all in it together! 

Treneti Brown, musician, somatic therapy practitioner, choreographer and devoted ambassador for GAIA. Treneti became a tree ambassador to realize a soul mission of guardianship to the planet by supporting her tree family. She feels that the way to restore balance on the planet is to give back to the land, “our trees give us so much and connect us all, we must maintain a healthy relationship to the forest if we want to survive” Treneti uses her music and dance as a means of encouraging,  sacred remembrance and Earth connectivity. She inspires her community to recognize the importance of having a healthy diverse forests and to invest in that. Treneti intends to have a hand in the planting of 333,000 trees in her lifetime. “Every tree planted through ACCT is a step in that goal being met, so thank you.”~Treneti Brown

Links:

www.soulfulresonance.com

www.facebook.com/trenetimusic

Instagram: @treneti_brown

Upward Spirals is a regenerative think tank and consulting company, building tools, templates, guides, business plans, and social benefit programs for leaders of regenerative projects, to help us all accelerate the co-creation of a regenerative society.

This is our Catalyst Mission, our work to systematically empower the world’s most impactful organizations with the models, guides, programs and plans they need to develop regenerative local economies. Our early phases are focused on creating a regenerative community economy in Southern Costa Rica, as a self-replicating model, to expand exponentially to thousands of global organizations to support and accelerate their regional transition.

By providing social enterprises, wellness and education centers, intentional communities, organic food producers and distributors, environmental educators, event producers, community organizers, and permaculture and ecological conservation projects, with:

• Regenerative Business Models
• Strategic Expansion Plans
• Social Enterprise Development Guides
• Financial Strategies and Tools
• Project Management Tools
• Event Planning and Coordination Models,

we are catalyzing the most impactful organizations’ ability to quickly create the new economic, education, and food systems society needs.

By making it easy, efficient, and profitable to develop and coordinate regenerative local economies, we are massively expanding the number of organizations working effectively together to create an ecologically balanced economy.

Our programs and services include:

Catalyst Consulting
Sustainable Living Expedition
Learning Calendar
Organic Directory
Community Days
Regenerative Library
Catalyst Experience Network (formerly Diamante Solution Center)

We offer tours with in the Marino Ballena National Park and its adjacent areas. We offer marine and terrestrial tours, mountain bike tours, kayak tours, andboat tours. We love to offer the opportunity for our guests to sponsor all kinds of diverse native rainforest trees for all the benefits they give us around the planet. Protecting the oceans means protecting the forests watershed draining into this precious marine environment we find in Costa Rica. Giving back to local communities in Costa Rica through creating tree planting and maintenance jobs is a great way to be a responsible tourist and give back to the country and her people struggling to save some of the last remaining rainforest on Earth. Creating jobs means stopping deforestation and supporting ACCT is a way for all of us to do just this. Save the rainforest! ONE TREE at a TIME.

Drissia is from the Netherlands and has two sons with whom she has traveled a lot. She has been to Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, India, Morocco, The Gambia, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Brazil, France, Hungary, Spain, England, Portugal, Cuba and Costa Rica. She is the owner of wereldwijsreizen.nl. Drissia provides sustainable travel in small groups with a slow travel pace in Morocco and Costa Rica with Wereldwijs Reizen. During these trips you contribute to local projects through participation in sustainable excursions and activities. The journeys encourage more sustainable action and thinking while traveling. She does this by compensating the CO2 emissions of all participants of the transport to and at all offered travel destinations. The sponsorship goes through ACCT because they plant trees on the equator, the best place to offset carbon. Because ACCT empowers men and women in the local community. And because you as a visitor can participate in reforestation activities. In addition, with her background in social work and many years of travel experience, she has a connected feeling with local projects that benefit people, animals or the environment. In the excursions, activities and daily interaction during the journeys, Drissia seeks to connect with local people or nature and the environment, combined with the adventure of traveling that the participant is looking for. As a traveler, as a mother and as a travel provider, she wants to pass on the beauty of it.